Category Archives: Trials

What if : no matter where you are, your browser was smart enough to log you in to the library’s proxy server whenever needed, in order to get to licensed content? That “what if” is now!

With the Lean Library browser plugin installed, you’ll be able to “Roam Free” as you do your research. Like Nature journals? Start your research at Nature.com. If you don’t have a current proxy session with HSL, you’ll be prompted automatically to start one. Like NEJM? Start out at The New England Journal of Medicine. Do you always start with Pubmed? Lean Library will automatically modify your starting URL so that HSL’s Article Linker full text checker appears with citations in Pubmed.

We have a trial going for HSTalks (Henry Stewart Talks) Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection from today through June 30th, 2016. HSTalks features animated, online, audio-visual lectures, seminar-style talks and case studies.

QUESTION: I was able to access an e-book recently, but now I can only get to the table of contents. What happened?

The library is participating in a PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) purchase program with some publishers, including R2 e-books. These books can be found on our e-books page and in our catalog. They are fully accessible until they have been used a certain number of times. Once that threshold has been reached, users can no longer access the full-text of the book–only the table of contents. The library then decides if it can purchase the e-book. Our goal is to make sure the library is purchasing resources that are getting used and are important to our users.